An account of the Wanderer’s voyage from Essex, Connecticut, to St. George’s, Bermuda. This article first appeared in the January, 1932 issue of The Bermudian. Leslie Howarth had summoned the four voluntary members of his crew to convene at Essex the day before sailing to get everything shipshape for an early departure on Saturday morning. I joined Wanderer Friday afternoon were she lay at anchor off the Dauntless Club—a chubby darling of a schooner yacht, saucy with the impudence of…
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Crystal Cave – One of Nature’s Pleasantries
This article was taken from our archives. It originally appeared in the May 1931 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did in print originally. Early in 1907, a group of small children were playing with a…
July 14, 2021
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How Bermuda’s Hills, Dales, Reefs and Byways Got Their Names
The legacy of a running feud between Bermuda’s government and some of its voters is preserved in Southampton’s Piecrust Place, a small cul-de-sac near St. Anne’s Church where the issue of what’s in a name once sparked an amusing rebellion.…
April 15, 2021
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The Blackburn Plot: A Tale of Death and Deception in the Yellow Fever Era
This short story was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the December 1933 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. Marion Ainsworth had been disgraced, and discharged without notice by Vincent Candee, managing…
April 11, 2021
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Bermuda During the Second World War
In September 1939, Dr. William (Bill) Cooke was just 11½ years old, living in a BELCO owned house on Cemetery Road. Years later he would write in his memoir that he saw “several policemen ride up to the BELCO Front…
November 11, 2020
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LISTEN: World War II Story: Under Cover in France, 1943 – 1944
(Editorial Note: When John Hartley Watlington came home in 1944, it seemed as if he had returned from the dead, for he had been completely lost to his family for just under a year. He was extremely reserved concerning his…
November 10, 2020
